Staying boot or shoe seams



(No Model.)

. H. P. PRESTON.

STAYING BOOT 0R SHOE SEAMS.

N0. 430,544. PatentedJune 17, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HIRAM P. PRESTON, OF HAVERHILL, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALVAIIO. TEBBETTS, OF EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS.

STAYING BOOT OR SHOE SEAMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,544, dated June 17,1890.

Application filed February 6 1890.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM P. PRESTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of H averhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Staying Boot or Shoe Seams, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in staying seams on boot or shoe uppers; and it has for its object to protect the stitches by means of which the stay is sewed to the stitched abutting edges of the upper portions and to prevent such rows of stitches from being worn by contact with the lower edge of the garment of the wearer, as will hereinafter be more fully shown and described, reference being had to the accom- 2o panyin g drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents aperspective view of a pair of front uppers having the seam stayed in the improved manner. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the same as seen from its un- 2 5 der side. Fig. 3 represents a cross-section on thelineXXinFig. 2. Fig.4 represents an edge View of the uppers stitched together previous to staying the seam, and Fig. 5 represents a similar view of said uppers after 0 the seam has been rubbed down.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

In the drawings, a to represent the uppers,

5 which are first laid against each other with the finished sides of the leather facing each other and stitched together by means of a row of stitches b, in the usual manner, as shown in Fig. 4. After being so united together the uppers are spread apart and the seam rubbed down, so that the adjoining upper leathers are laid out fiat, or nearly so, in the ordinary Way, as represented in Fig. 5. The uppers so treated are then laid upon the work-support- 5 ing plate ofan ordinary sewing-machine with the finished side of the leather uppermost, and underneath the uppers, between the latter and the work-supporting plate of Serial No. 339,476. (No model.)

the sewing-machine, is located first a cord 0 and below it a tape or stay (I, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The stay d is then united to the uppers fl, a by means of two parallel rows of stitches e e, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, going through the uppers a a and stay (Z on two opposite sides of the cord 0, by which a projecting ridge A is formed on the outside of the uppers, said ridge being made to project slightly above the uppers, as shown, for the purpose described. The rows of stitches e e are preferably made in a sewingmachine provided with a pair of twin needles well known in the art.

The invention is equally well adapted for the rear or other seams of boots or shoes Without departing from the essence of my invention.

I am aware that a stay and cord has been used on a solid piece of leather, and I wish to state that I do not claim such an arrangement as my invention; but

hat I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a boot or shoe upper composed of the upper sections a a, having front abutting edges stitched together and formed with the ridge A, extending parallel with and along one side of the stitched abutting edges, afiexible cord 0, located within the ridge at the inside of the upper at the front thereof, and the flexible tape underlying the cord and the stitched abutting edges of the upper sections extending from opposite sides of the cord and having such extensions stitched to the inside of the upper at opposite sides of the corded ridge and stitched abutting edges, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 31st day of January, A. D. 1890.

HIRAM P. PRESTON.

\Vitnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, MARTHA J. JACKSON. 

